Back To The Age Of The '80s

On April 1985, 4, the headquarters of Merck (MSD) held a press conference to announce that imipenem had passed FDA approval and was officially launched globally.

North America, Europe, Japan, Singapore, Xiangjiang, and Huaguo have become the first regions and countries for imipenem.

For a time, the major media rushed to report.Biologists called it a great change in the history of antibiotics, and Merck and Li Zheng's laboratory were in the limelight for a while.

As the global media scrambled to report the good news and express their great confidence in mankind's victory over the disease, some discordant voices also came out.

The South Korean media voiced their strong dissatisfaction with the lack of South Korea in the starting country.Korean folks even directly raised why Huaguo was the first country and South Korea was not.South Korea's health department held an emergency meeting and negotiated with Merck overnight, hoping to include South Korea in the ranks of the starting countries.

Merck said that due to the limited production capacity of new drugs, they cannot be launched simultaneously globally. They deeply regret and apologize for this. Merck is a global pharmaceutical company with social responsibility. While pursuing interests, it also values ​​the company's contribution to society. Contribution, Huaguo is a populous country, and the national population accounts for one-fifth of the global population. The listing of imipenem in Huaguo can better make the drug serve human beings.

Those long and selfless words made the people of Huaguo's favorability towards Merck explode instantly.

"Li, I'm sorry, this is the best result I can strive for. The pricing of drugs must be unified globally. As for Huaguo, I have discussed with Mr. Smith. We will cooperate with the Ministry of Health of Huaguo to launch a drug assistance project, as long as The materials are well prepared, and the patient's drug cost is half of the actual price." Kent on the phone said helplessly.

Li Zheng smiled, "Thank you, Kent. I understand." Pharmaceutical companies will not change their pricing strategies because of anyone, let alone a drug like imipenem, which is completely a seller's market.

The Doc virus vaccine has also officially entered the human clinical stage.The drug regulatory authorities of the United States and South Africa are conducting human clinical trials on the vaccine at the same time, and the launch of the vaccine has also entered the high-speed channel.

Li Zheng's preparations were all done, and he booked a flight for May [-]th.

As the day of Li Zheng's departure approached, Liang Zhe's temper became irritable.

"Not in a good mood? Listen, Uncle Fang, you spilled a girl's glass of water at dinner tonight?" Li Zheng walked into Liang Zhe's study room. The room was dimly lit and the floor-to-ceiling windows were closed.

Liang Zhe sat in front of the desk with his head down so that people could not see his expression clearly.

Li Zheng opened the curtain halfway, and then sat across from Liang Zhe.

"She's messing around..." Liang Zhe said in a low voice.

Li Zheng raised his eyebrows, and said amusedly, "She flirted with you?"

"Yeah." Although he felt that the word "molesting" was a bit wrong, the aggrieved Liang Zhe still nodded.

Li Zheng leaned forward slightly, moving his head towards Liang Zhe, "Well done."

Liang Zhe looked up at him, their eyes met and they did not separate for a long time.

After about 5 minutes, Liang Zhe pursed his lips and said, "I regret it..." Due to Liang's and Hua Jing Fang's reasons, Liang Zhe could not leave Xiangjiang for the time being.

In other words, once Li Zheng returned to the inland, the two would have to be separated.Liang Zhe thought it was nothing, the big deal was that he flew to Huajing several times a month.

But seeing that the time for Li Zheng to go back was getting closer, he began to become restless.If he is well versed in the classical literature of Huaguo, he would know that there is a sentence in ancient Huaguo that is very suitable for his current state of mind.

"Repent to teach my husband and son-in-law to seek a title." His current mood is not much different from that of the deep-rooted boudoir and resentful wife in ancient times.

Li Zheng's heart contracted slightly, he put his right hand on Liang Zhe's head, and rubbed it lightly.

"Understood." He lowered his eyelids, making it difficult to see the emotion in his eyes.

Liang Zhe stood up suddenly, wrapped his arms around Li Zheng's back, and pressed the man's head on his shoulder across the table.

The shoulders of the two were close together, and the heat of the other's body could be clearly felt through the thin shirt, and the hot breath hit the side of the face.

"I regret."

"I know."

"I really regret it."

"Ah."

With the intimate kisses, only the breathing of the two could be heard in the empty study room, and the lights in the room seemed to feel the mood of the master, and became darker and darker.

The starlight outside the window shines through the floor-to-ceiling windows and falls onto the marble floor of the study, casting beautiful shadows.

next day

Steward Fang opened his mouth wide as he watched the two people walking down hand in hand.

"Mr. Li Zheng, did you stay here last night?" He asked out loud.

Liang Zhe's face no longer had yesterday's irritability and uncertainty. After going downstairs, he quickly went to the table to get a wet towel for wiping his hands, and handed it to Li Zheng.

"Breakfast is ready, clean it up, let's go eat." He was full of eyes on this person in front of him, as for Butler Fang... Sorry, he is selectively blind.

Li Zheng's face turned pale, "Well, it was late last night, so I didn't go back."

"Then why didn't you ask me to clean up the guest room! Oh, I'm so sorry." Sure enough, when Mr. Li Zheng came, Mr. Liang's mood improved. Thinking of this, Butler Fang smiled even more earnestly, "I Now let me give you an order to prepare a spare room for you, in my opinion, don’t go back to your laboratory, it’s deserted and unpopular, how could it be better than here.”

Before Li Zheng could speak, Liang Zhe stopped Butler Fang's words.

"No, he lives with me." Liang Zhe pulled Li Zheng behind him as if swearing his sovereignty, and after a little hesitation, he continued: "Uncle Fang is right, don't go back, stay here."

There was pitiful eagerness in Liang Zhe's eyes, and he was not at all overbearing like last night.

"Okay." Li Zheng looked at Liang Zhe with a kind of pampering that he couldn't even realize.

Steward Fang finally came to his senses, the interaction between the two was wrong.

He looked at Liang Zhe, then at Li Zheng, but he couldn't ask, what's wrong?

"Eat and eat, breakfast is ready." Fang Butler couldn't figure it out for a while, so he stopped thinking about it and called people to the restaurant.

The big pear wood table and pear wood chairs look magnificent, but it is really uncomfortable to sit on.

Seeing Li Zheng frowning, Liang Zhe hurriedly stood up, took a cushion from the living room and placed it on Li Zheng's chair.

"It's okay." He pursed his lips tightly and looked at Li Zheng cautiously.

"It's okay." Li Zheng rubbed his temples helplessly, sending him to his place.

Butler Fang was even more confused. Mr. Li Zheng was uncomfortable there, couldn't he sit?

The laboratory work is tight, and the meal time is almost the only time for researchers to relax. Therefore, Li Zheng has developed the habit of organizing his thoughts during the meal time.

And Liang Zhe has never been a talkative person, so he took a bite and looked at Li Zheng, even saving the side dishes.

Butler Fang felt that the dinner was too quiet, so he couldn't help but speak up to enliven the atmosphere.

"I heard that Mr. Li Zheng is going back to the mainland next month? Are you coming back?"

Li Zheng put down the spoon in his hand, "Of course I'll come back and take a look." It was to come back to take a look, not to come back.

The temperature in the room seemed to drop by two degrees.

"Mr. Li Zheng, you have come of age this year, such a handsome and capable guy, I don't know which girl is cheaper."

"Pa-ta." Liang Zhe put down the bowl and chopsticks, "Mine!"

"What?" Fang Butler looked at his little master suspiciously.

"Li Zheng is mine!" Liang Zhe said word by word, his mouth tightly pursed into a straight line.

Butler Fang frowned.

"Sir, I know you rely on Mr. Li Zheng, but even so, you can't stop him from finding a wife." Fang Butler said righteously.

Liang Zhe's face flushed red, "I...I am his wife!" He opened his mouth and said it.

There was a moment of silence in the dining room, Fang's growling mouth, Liang Zhe's dependence on Li Zheng, the unprepared guest room last night, and the abnormal interaction between the two.

His complexion changed all of a sudden.

Steward Fang's face became serious, and he looked at Li Zheng with hostility and dissatisfaction.

"What is the relationship between you and Ah Zhe?"

The expression on Li Zheng's face was a little stiff. He knew that the social atmosphere of the 80s was far from being open to the later generations, and love between same-sex people was often not recognized.

In Li Zheng's heart, although Steward Fang is a housekeeper, in Liang Zhe's life, he often plays the role of an elder.

"Well, we are...partners." Li Zheng hesitated for a moment, but still said so.

Fang Butler was furious when he heard this.He slapped the table and stood up.

"Since you are partners and have slept in the same bed, how can you give up all the time! Leave Xiangjiang to go to the inland, come back and see, you think of us Mr. Liang as your little lover !"

Li Zheng...

Liang Zhe...

After crossing Ming Road in front of Steward Fang, Liang Zhe became more unscrupulous. In the next few days, he was like a follower with the automatic tracking function turned on. He followed Li Zheng wherever he went.

This made Steward Fang even more certain that Mr. Liang was the one below.While sighing, he specially went to Nine Dragons, found an old Chinese doctor and took several medicines. He heard that it was good for the person below.

Every time Liang Zhe was forced to drink medicine, he always took a sip, and then found various excuses to enter the room. Of course, the medicine ended up in Li Zheng's stomach.

In addition, the number of encounters between Butler Fang and Li Zheng increased sharply. The Liang family is really big, with five or six living rooms. On weekdays, Li Zheng would see Butler Fang every time he was eating, but after that time, Butler Fang Like a ghost, wherever Li Zheng is, he will appear there.

He seemed to be talking to himself about Liang Zhe and his wife who died when he was a child, and later met those relatives who almost died in the sea, and about autism. Li Zheng felt helpless for a while.

He really didn't give up at the beginning and end, and...he's the one below, okay!